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2016

Explaining Hockey Night in Canada to someone who isn’t from here might take all day. With games on 57 channels every night, with Christmastime featuring tournaments and all age groups, it would be easy to argue getting away from hockey on New Year’s Eve is the right thing to do. Except, Canada. Except, Edmonton. It…

The Oilers made a pair of blue line moves Friday. First they activated veteran rearguard Mark Fayne off the injured list and assigned him to Bakersfield. Next, they recalled one of last year’s pleasant surprises, bringing Jordan Oesterle up from the farm team.

After having his rookie season with the Edmonton Oilers rudely interrupted by a busted clavicle that kept him on the shelf for 37 games, Connor McDavid completed the equivalent of a full NHL campaign in a 3-1 win over the Los Angeles Kings Thursday.

After going through the first five most-read stories and articles of 2016 yesterday, we finish off the list with numbers five through one. In today’s list, we say goodbye to a few longstanding Oilers and hello to two new pieces that will be around long-term.

Leafs Christmas wish list, should the Canucks have taken Matthew Tkachuk, Jets bracing for expansion, could the Flames have a Calder winner, are people worried about McDavid in Edmonton, prospect rankings, the World Junior tournament, skill over heart, the best scraps of 2016 and more in this week’s Nation Roundup brought to you by Violent Gentlemen.

As the calendar winds down on 2016, fans thoughts will turn to the trade deadline, playoffs, and eventually the summer activities. One of the big items on the agenda for the NHL this summer will be the expansion draft, as the league stocks the new Vegas Golden Knights franchise. Who are the most attractive players…

On Tuesday, the hosts of Real Life roused themselves from their Christmas Break and headed down to Little Brick to record the eighth episode of the show. According to Gregor “just because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean we stop working.”

Welcome, my friends, to Part One of the Best of OilersNation from the past 12 months. In this article, I’ve put together the most popular stories and topics from the year in our first annual look back at the year that was. Your boy dug through the Nation’s analytics, grabbed an abacus, and figured out which stories were…

It wasn’t all that long ago that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was regarded in many quarters as the Oilers’ most important building block, the first-line centre the team’s rebuild would hinge on. With the arrival of Connor McDavid and the emergence of Leon Draisaitl, however, the idea of trading RNH has a certain currency among segments of…

New Year’s Eve is around the corner and one resolution for the Edmonton Oilers might just be to do everything in their power to become a playoff team. Good news, this team is in position already to that (crazy, I know). So the next step is to be more than a team that just makes…